Removing Agile Board instructions not up to date for Jira 8.0

[Fred Raines]

Our company does not use Agile.  The Agile Board button on the Open Issues screen is confusing to our developers and we wish to remove it. Agile does not appear in the list of installed apps under Manage Apps, therefore I assume it is not installed. The following link instructs you to remove the Agile Plugin.  Assuming a Plugin is now called an App, and the Agile App is not installed, these instructions don't make sense.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-disable-the-agile-board-option-from-the-more-drop-down-in-jira-issues-722830951.html

Is there another way to do this?

Also, it would be helpful to remove the Agile drop down list at the lower right corner of the Open Issues screen.  How can this be done.

[Andy Heinzer · Accepted solution]

Hi Fred,

I updated that KB to better reflect these steps for current Jira versions.  These steps though are still applicable to Jira 7 and Jira 8 versions.   The major thing to know about Jira Agile is that it was rebranded with the launch of Jira 7.  In that version it became known as Jira Software.  So if you're using the Jira Software product, you are essentially still using a modern form of Jira Agile.

The way the KB was worded, I could see how you might not be able to find this plugin/add-on/app.  I'm afraid Atlassian's own terminology keeps changing which isn't always helping end users and administrators understand what we are trying to refer to.

Try to take another look at the KB now.  I added an additional step that I think will help more users be able to locate this plugin and the specific module on their system.

Please note that this KB is only intended to remove the "Agile board" link that exists in the More menu of Jira issues.  It does not actually disable any of the other Jira Software functions in your system.   If you want to actually remove Jira Software and just keep your Jira server (or Jira Core) installed, you can actually do this.  But the way to do this in Jira 7 and 8 is actually in a different location than Jira 6 and earlier versions.

In Jira 7, you can go to -> Applications ->Versions & licenses.  On this page you can see which Jira applications are installed.   You can see there exists an "Uninstall" link for both Jira Software and Jira Service Desk if you have these currently installed.   If you're sure you don't want to use these Jira Software features at all, you can uninstall this application and still keep using the Jira Core features.

I hope this helps.

Andy

[Fred Raines]

That worked well to remove the Agile Board link in the More menu. Is there another module that can be disabled to remove the Agile sidebar that exists in the lower right corner of the Open Issues screen?

[Andy Heinzer]

I have not found a module of that plugin that you can disable to affect that specific section of the issue view.  However I did find that I could hack together a javascript to hide/remove this element from the page when loaded.    This is only possible in Jira Server, (Sorry Cloud).  What you can do as a Jira Administrator is to go into the announcement banner, and add this script:

<script type="text/javascript">
AJS.toInit(function(){
AJS.$('#greenhopper-agile-issue-web-panel').hide();
});
</script>

This does appear to remove that section from the page once the browser loads the page.

[Andy Heinzer]

Actually playing with the plugin modules some more I found another way to disable a module to get the same effect, you could disable the module called:

greenhopper-agile-issue-web-panel

Guess I should have paid closer attention to the element name of that section of the page. 

[Fred Raines]

That solved my issues. Thanks for your help.